Danbob-boo,
Congrats! I'm very excited for ya but understand this will not be your last boo purchase. It sounds like the condition of the rod is in good order. Which model is it? (Usually written under the Montague name in the oval logo.)
Try the 5# first, but the 6# as JC recommends will probably be dead on. Photojoe4 is also correct in his recommendation to slow everything down! It is afterall a pass-time activitiy.
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God Blesses!
A wing & a Prayer! ----*<(((><~ ~ ~ ~
Quinn
"I envy not him that eats better meat than I do, nor him that is richer, or that wears better clothes than I do; I envy nobody but him, and him only that catches more fish than I do." Izaak Walton
God Bless and Tight Lines ----*<(((>< ~ ~ ~